Breakfast Links for Monday, May 21
May 21st, 2007 by max linsky in NewsSure, you know about the Royal with Cheese, but do you now about these?
+ Tampa Bay’s future, in legos. [poho]
+ The HT’s out with their city manager candidate profiles, all the big names are here: Daniel Fitzpatrick, Terry Zerkle, Patrick Salerno, Robert Bartolotta, Marsha Segal-George, and some other woman. [ht]
+ I can’t figure this column out. Do the commissioners want an excuse to not hire Stanton? Does Lyons? [ht]
+ Texas releases 226 juvenille prisoners. Here’s the definitive read on the Texas Youth Commission, incredible book. [salon via slog] [amazon]
+ The MySpace friend race. What — Huckabee’s not even on Screech Level? [radar]
+ Should the Wilson brothers be better? [slate]
+ Who’s up for some “increasingly irrelevant” jokes? [huffpo]
+ I’m not sure every bartender needs to know about The Bone. [esquire]
+ In case you didn’t hear — Specter says Gonzo is, heh, gonzo. [cnn]
+ Sure it’s annoying, but can veganism kill? Apparently. [nyt]
May 21st, 2007 at 10:12 am
The McShawarma brings back so many memories of my alienated, culturally chaotic youth, it’s not even funny.
Practically my whole family lives in Haifa, Israel, and when I was little, I used to spend whole summers abroad with my grandparents. I still recall trips to the mall in Qiryat Bialik, where the food court provided so many mouth-watering options — falafel, burekas, fried pita — I would eat like a Third-World cripple before passing out from chewing exhaustion. But my favorite was a burger chain called, fittingly, “Burger Ranch” (”Boorger,” if you wanna be all authentic about it), an American-Israel fusion with a cowboy/rancher theme.
The place’s piece de resistance was something called a Spanish burger (”Burger Sefaradi”), spicy and with like this enormous fucking pile of sauteed onions smeared with hot sauce.
‘Cause you’ve never, felt heartburn like this before. (Open my eyes.)
At this point, I’ve sampled fast food all over the world, but I’ve honestly never tasted anything to rival the Israeli take on Spanish hamburgers. Taco Bell comes close, but their sauce isn’t NEAR spicy enough. And with McShawarma now on the horizon, well, I guess it’s worth a trip back to the Qiryat food court.
בתי×בון
May 21st, 2007 at 3:10 pm
totally off topic:
here is where all the bees went:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/21/bees.fundraiser.ap/index.html?eref=rss_us
they were just in bee bootcamp for massive takeover of earth. this was just a successful practice run.
May 22nd, 2007 at 10:27 am
at this point, there’s nothing that bees could do to surprise me. throw a dinner party, shave points in a basketball game, develop nuclear weapons … nothing